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Mary Kirkaldy wrote:
> The reconstruction of the bones and the associated commentary were > also interesting. Boyd Matson (host of the program) mispronounced > Ténéré, but that wasn't as bad as NBC and CBS News, which pronounced > _Suchomimus_ as Sook-oh-MIM-us and Sook-oh-MEEM-us, respectively. wrote:
<Isn't "Sook-oh-MIM-us" how the name *should* be pronounced?> As much as I like English, English pronunciation of Latin
and Greek words is quite another story (I'll never get used to it, I
guess)...
Sook-oh-MIM-us is quite close
- but wouldn't "Sook-o-MIM-us" be better?
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